On Tue Jun 16 16:54 , Onno Kortmann sent:
>> >output. Consider that people may one day not check out from CVS >> >but use a source .tar.gz instead. >> >> I'm not trying to add more. >> I'm just trying to fix a bad doc. >Well, maybe my bad english confuses you: >I think that the bad (missing) docs are in 'configure' itself. >It should thus be fixed in configure.ac, and not in bootstrap. The "the" in "the bad (missing) docs are in 'configure' itself" suggests that the *only* bad (missing) docs are in 'configure' itself. The badness under discussion occurs in several places, but, for the moment, I'm only trying to fix one place. The place is bootstrap. >People may download simulavrxx.tar.gz with a pre-made 'configure' >from configure.ac, and they will not see your message when >just calling 'configure'. Configure could use fixing also. I'm starting small. >> As-is, bootstrap finishes with a direction to run ./configure . >> To me, that should be fixed. >I do this (with additional options) and it causes no problems for me. >What is your problem with simply calling ./configure? Autotools don't like me. It's rare for me to have them work twice in a row. When I make a mess, I want to be able to clean up easily. I want to be able to know that I've cleaned up. Being able to remove an entire directory does that for me. I don't need to worry about the efficacy of the clean-up mechanisms. >> It's not clear to me that building in the source >> directory should necessarily be allowed. >I like to build in the source directory. So I think >it should be definitively allowed by the build scripts. I'm not suggesting that it should be deliberately disallowed. I'm more interested in ensuring that using a separate build directory is not discouraged. >I'm no simulavrxx maintainer, >but I still like to voice my opinion here :-) > >.. and I also think that a VPATH build should be supported. > >> The possibility doesn't bother me, >> but I think that it should not be a goal. >> It certainly should not be made to seem a requirement. >I rather understood the message from bootstrap as a hint >on what to do next for those who are not familiar with the autotools >bootstrap+configure+make process. But if it is confusing, >it should be fixed, I agree. If one doesn't know what one is doing, as I didn't the first few times, a hint isn't much different from a command. Can we get someone to check in the patch? -- Michael Hennebry henne...@cableone.net "War is only a hobby." ---- Msg sent via CableONE.net MyMail - http://www.cableone.net _______________________________________________ Simulavr-devel mailing list Simulavr-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/simulavr-devel